The Stationers' Company : a history, 1403-1959

Blagden, Cyprian

Published by London : Allen & Unwin, 1960

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Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 321 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-303). Contents; Preface -- 1. The Charter: and before (The new hall and the Charter ; The stationers and their craft gilds [guilds] ; Printing in England ; Aliens and foreigners ; Government interference ; Copyright) -- 2. The early stationers and their governance (The pattern of membership ; Bylaws before 1557 ; Draft ordinances of 1559 ; Ordinances of 1562) -- 3. The Company in the reign of Elizabeth I (Twelve months in the life of the Company ; The Company's servants ; Routine ; A trade complaint ; Warden's accounts) -- 4. The Company and the monopolies (The monopolies in books ; Grievances ; Attempts at alleviation ; Government intervention: the Decrees of 1566 and 1586 ; The Company's involvement in monopolies ; The roots of the English stock) -- 5. The life of a stationer (The master ; John Harrison ; Apprenticeship rules ; Thomas Man: the young bookseller ; Promotion ; Fines for avoiding offices ; Man's later career ; The triumph of the booksellers) -- 6. The stocks (The English stock ; Capital and shareholding ; Management ; Competition from the universities ; The Latin stocks ; The Irish stock) -- 7. Growth, 1603 to 1641 (Normal gild [guild] activities ; The Star Chamber Decree of 1637 ; Rules for booksellers ; Rules for printers and letter-founders ; The career of a printer). 8. Civil war (The breakdown of Royal authority ; Michael Sparks and the first challenge to the Assistants ; Thomas Underhill and the second challenge to the Assistants ; Miles Fletcher and the monopolies ; The Bible, Scotch, grammar, law and Irish patents ; The Company's printing at Cambridge ; Control of Printing by ordinance and Act of parliament ; The 'Company' of printers: a challenge to the stationers) -- 9. The Company in the reign of the later Stuarts (The Printing Act of 1662 ; The new Ordinance of 1678 ; Supplementary Ordinances of 1681 and 1683 ; The new Charter of 1684 ; The protection of copyright ; The first Copyright Act, 1710) -- 10. Corporation and English stock finances (Minutes of Court meetings ; Warden's accounts ; English stock accounts ; Rival patents ; Seymour and the universities ; The new stock ; The treasurer of the English stock) -- 11. The property (The hall in St. Paul's churchyard ; The Dark House ; Newton Farm ; Wood Stret ; The hall at Abergavenny ; The Great Fire and the rebuilding ; The property since the Survey of 1773) -- 12. The Company in the eighteenth century (The challenge of the Livery ; Messrs. Osborne and Nutt ; The challenge of the Yeomanry ; Jacob Ilive ; The challenge to the almanack monopoly ; Thomas Carnan ; The English stock ; The trades of Liverymen ; Apprenticeship ; The status of the Company) -- 13. Signs of old age (Early nineteenth century prosperity ; The Stationers' Company school ; The Livery Companies' Commission ; Interest in the Company's history ; Breaks with the past ; The decline of the English stock ; Copyright) -- 14. The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers. Appendix 1: Apprentices bound and turned over, Freemen presented, Livery-men called, and important events, (1557-1959) -- Appendix 2: The Milk Street myth -- Appendix 3: Membership of the Court of Assistants, (1558-76). Subjects; Stationers' Company (London, England). Worshipful Company of Stationers. Stationers' Company (London, England) History. Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (London, England) History. Stationers' Company History. Stationers' Co. (London, England). Stationers' Company (London, England). Worshipful Company of Stationers of London. Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers. Stationers' Company (London, England) History. Book indus. Seller Inventory # 341906

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Stationers' Company : a history, 1403-...

Publisher: London : Allen & Unwin

Publication Date: 1960

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First Edition.